2012 election

Donald Trump’s War Against the GOP Establishment Has Breitbart Written All Over it

Donald Trump’s War Against the GOP Establishment Has Breitbart Written All Over it

Fox News' Laura Ingraham complains, "The Republican Party is led by people who have more in common with the Clintons…

7 years ago

A Revealing Look at Racism’s Role in Which Party White People Support

Ever since Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act and championed policies supporting minorities, whites have been defecting from the party.

11 years ago

In the End, Obama’s Compassion for All Routed the GOP’s Greed and Contempt

In rejecting the Draconian agenda Romney and Ryan proposed, the majority of Americans expressed the compassion President Obama demonstrates in…

11 years ago

Democracy Won in 2012 and That’s Thanks to You

All this and more happened because Americans across the country spent hours in lines, after surviving the Republican obstacle course,…

11 years ago

What You Need to Do if You are Harassed or Denied Your Vote

This is your Election Day check list, providing you with information on everything from what to do before you leave…

11 years ago

Proving He’s Not Fit to Lead, Romney Blames Others for His Failure

Romney surrogates are busy blaming Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie, which is really the perfect way for them to flame…

11 years ago

Saturday Night Shocker: Behind The Spin the Romney Camp Admits They’re Losing

Behind their attempted Saturday night media spin was a dose of read between the lines truth. The Romney campaign admitted…

11 years ago

Why It Was an Honor to Vote for Obama for Second Term

Sarah Jones explains why she voted for President Obama's second term with more entusiasm than in 2008.

11 years ago

Post Sandy Obama Returns to Campaigning with Blistering Vengeance

President Obama returning the campaign trail in Wisconsin with a blistering attack on the kind of change Mitt Romney would…

11 years ago

Ohio’s Election Nightmare – Courtesy of Jon Husted

Many are saying that this election hinges on Ohio. Well, if that is true, thanks to Jon Husted's new program,…

11 years ago

Racists Create Their Own Super PAC to Accuse Obama of Racism Against Whites

By accusing Obama of racism toward white people, the Fight Bigotry Super PAC is the perfect haven for real racists…

11 years ago

Is Romney Taking A Dive and Throwing the Election?

As a clear picture of Paul Ryan comes into focus so has a question. Is it possible that bright and…

11 years ago

The Dreams of Romney-Ryan Are Dangerous to Nearly Everyone

This ticket will absolutely depend on low-information voters enamored with right wing media. In point of fact, the vast majority…

11 years ago

Occupy Inspires me to Vote, Voting Inspires me to Occupy

The choice has never been either popular democracy or institutional change--the choice has always been do both or get neither.

11 years ago

Marriage Equality Verdict is In: God is Whiny Little Bitch

The verdict is in: based on fundamentalist Christian response to the Democratic Party's marriage equality platform, God is a whiny…

11 years ago

Mitt, Who Wanted Detroit to go Bankrupt, Blames Obama for not ALL Auto Dealers Surviving

Romney, who wanted Detroit to go bankrupt, is angry that some auto dealers went bankrupt even though a bankrupt Detroit…

11 years ago

Mitt Romney’s Scourge of Private Equity Vampirism

We like people who contribute to our society, people who build, who create goods and services, who create jobs. We…

11 years ago

What History Says About Romney’s Conservative Anglo-Saxon Parochialism

Romney's parochial GOP attitudes seem to give him an almost childlike understanding of a world that represents the evils of…

11 years ago

Lesson to Mitt Romney: Life Doesn’t Happen Retroactively in the Real World

The Romney Time Machine is amazing: you can now be exonerated retroactively, invaliding evidence that might appear later to the…

11 years ago

Fox News Calls Young People Dumb for Supporting Obama

In their attempt to explain away why 80% of young people don't like Mitt Romney, Fox News proclaimed that only…

11 years ago

Colbert Nails it: ‘None of the Above’ is Better Choice Than Romney for Republicans

Republicans have discovered that the candidate they got is not the candidate they wanted, or needed. Nevada's ballot offers a…

11 years ago

Obama Tells Romney to Take His Apology Demand and Shove It

The Obama campaign has responded to Mitt Romney's demands for an apology with a new video that tells him to…

11 years ago

Televangelist Tells Christians to Write in ‘Jesus’ on Election Day

Televangelist Bill Keller doesn't like Mormons or Romney and he doesn't like Obama so he says you should vote for…

11 years ago

Let’s Nudge Republicans Off Their Shaky Healthcare Cliff

Tea Party Republicans are on such shaky ground with their opposition to Obamacare that it would be a sin not…

11 years ago

A Bunch of Very Hot Days and Global Warming

I'm sure glad anthropogenic global warming is a myth because after a couple of days in the wake of storm-induced…

11 years ago

Republican ‘Patriots’ Terrorize America with Calls for Armed Insurrection

After the Supreme Court's ruling that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, the ignorance, stupidity, and racism of the far…

11 years ago

The Republicans’ Bad Day and What it Means for America

Yesterday was a bad day for the GOP but we should remember they've had many bad days recently and that…

11 years ago

GOP Reality Check: Reagan Added Public Sector Jobs During Recession

This is a huge reason for the stubborn unemployment! President Obama doesn't have the benefit of adding public workers to…

11 years ago

The GOP and the Limits of Positive Thinking

When bad news piles on bad news, how does a person carry on, and how far can positive thinking carry…

11 years ago

PFAW Says If You Don’t Give Them Money, You Support Mitt Romney

I like PFAW and the work they do; I do not like getting fundraising letters accusing me of supporting Mitt…

11 years ago

Shut Up, Know Your Role, or Die – the GOP’s 2012 Platform

The conservative mind is focused on a sense of privilege and possession of rights nobody else gets to enjoy, whatever…

11 years ago

Obama Drops the Gloves and Delivers an Epic Middle Class Beatdown to Mitt Romney

President Obama offered his vision for America's future in Cleveland, and he wiped the floor with Romney by defining him…

11 years ago

Sorry Media, This Election Won’t be About the Economy and Jobs

The mainstream media's constructed storyline is that the 2012 election is all about the economy and jobs, but this election…

11 years ago

The Dirty Thirty – June 2012 Edition

Today marks a new format in the Dirty Thirty, which will now include only updates (the entire updated list will…

11 years ago

Elizabeth Warren Communist Because She Supports Everything Conservatives Hate

Hate group president Brian Carmenker says that Elizabeth Warren is a communist because she supports everything conservatives hate

11 years ago

America’s Choice: Why Obama in 2012?

There are many reasons to vote for Barack Obama in 2012, and very few to vote against him, given the…

11 years ago

Christopher Monckton: The Man Who Lies About His Credentials Question’s Obama’s

Christopher Monckton tells many lies about his own credentials so its no surprise that he has jumped on Joe Arpaio's…

11 years ago

Demonize It! The Fundamentalist Obsession with Demons

Most 21st century Americans deal with the world they see and give no thought to an underlying reality full of…

11 years ago

The Mitt Romney Ken Doll Interview Strategy: Look Good, Say Nothing

A Ken doll could give more substantive answers to questions, but then maybe that's Mitt Romney's intent.

11 years ago

Romney to Speak at Ralph Reed’s 2012 FFC Conference & Strategy Briefing

Ralph Reed wants to play Kingmaker like he did in 1994 and he has Mitt Romney lined up to slobber…

11 years ago

Obama: Mitt Romney is the Opposite of Robin Hood

While attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama kept up the pressure on Romney and his self-enrichment record at…

11 years ago

Barack Obama Demands that Mitt Romney Show Us the Money

In order to avoid paying income taxes Mitt Romney is hiding his wealth all over the world, and now the…

11 years ago

What Would A Romney Presidency be Like? It’s Anyone’s Guess

Mitt Romney wants Americans to know what the first day of a Romney presidency would look like, based on his…

11 years ago

Scrutiny of Mitt Romney’s Character Reveals Psychopathic Tendencies

Between his inability to stop laughing when he causes misery to others and his chronic deceitfulness, Mitt Romney is almost…

11 years ago

Family Values: Why The Right is Attacking Barack and Michelle Obama’s Marriage

The right wing rumor that Barack and Michelle Obama almost got a divorce goes beyond irrational hatred of this president…

11 years ago

Republicans Label Obama Metrosexual, Black Abe Lincoln

A GOP Super PAC had a genius plan to destroy Obama by connecting him (again) to his once-upon-a-time pastor Jeremiah…

11 years ago

Obama Opens Up General Election Can of Whoop Ass on Romney

After Obama's rousing start to what is sure to be a long general election campaign, before the boredom of the…

11 years ago

Obama Adding Faith Vote Director to Campaign

Obama has a religion problem. His answer to that problem is a Faith Vote Director. He has already shown that…

11 years ago

Seven Reasons Why Obama Is the Obvious Choice for Women

All women have to do to emphatically support Obama in 2012 is compare his policies to the Romney and the…

11 years ago

If We Must Fight, Let it Be Now

Increasingly the GOP is talking about Second Amendment remedies and even armed insurrection if Obama wins in 2012, threatening the…

11 years ago

Kate Beckinsale Talks about Republicans in Her Vagina

The Republicans want to get into your vagina, and in this humorously mocking piece Kate Beckinsale and others make the…

11 years ago

Obama Hits Ohio Fired Up, Firing Away and Romney is in Big Trouble

President Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign in Ohio, not only fired up with a positive vision for the future,…

11 years ago

Romney Runs Virtually Unopposed and Watches Obama’s Lead Grow

Mitt Romney ran virtually unopposed in Pennsylvania, and saw President Obama's lead grow to eight points. Demonstrating again that the…

11 years ago

Champion the Vote Champions Faith-Based Bigotry

Bill Dallas of Champion the Vote is upset that he has to explain about gays to his little daughter. His…

11 years ago

Seriously Media? CNN and NBC Whine about Obama’s Negative Campaign against Romney

Only in the bizarro world of the mainstream media will you find CNN and NBC ignoring Mitt Romney's endless negativity…

11 years ago

The War on Women is No Joke, But The Denials of the Right Are

Matthew Continetti, founder of the Washington Free Beacon, thinks the Republican war on women is a joke without victims or…

11 years ago

I Think That Belongs to Me, Said the Elephant

The Republican Party has staked its claim to women's vaginas, as should be obvious by now to all

11 years ago

What it Means if Dick Lugar is Centrist

If Lugar is a centrist than the true centrist position is an extreme left position just as Republicans insist and…

11 years ago

Obama Drops the Hammer on Mitt Romney’s Lies

In an interview with Telemundo, President Obama dropped the hammer and served notice to Mitt Romney that his lies will…

11 years ago

According to the Right, You Are Afraid of Ann Romney!

According to a couple of Republican women writing for CNN, the left is afraid of Ann Romney because she is…

11 years ago

Hilary Rosen Was Right: Ann Romney Is Not the Average Woman

Hilary Rosen called it correctly. Ann Romney has no idea of the struggles the average American experiences every day and…

11 years ago

Republicans Try To Rid Themselves Of Romney’s Mormon Problem By Blaming Obama

Republicans are so worried about what an examination of Mormonism can and will do to Romney's campaign that they are…

11 years ago

The Candidate Without Pants

Mitt Romney has exposed himself to the American people; the question heading toward Election Day is have the American people…

11 years ago

The Bible – The False Premise of American Theocracy

The GOP wants us to believe that we must all collectively and individually do as their God wants or suffer…

11 years ago

The Dirty Thirty – April Fool’s Edition

The Republican assault on American liberties has continued in 2012 with continued emphasis on the reproductive rights of women and…

11 years ago

Unions Fight Back with Largest Political Mobilization Ever For Obama

Trumka's decision to throw the full force of the nation's largest union behind Obama will go a long way toward…

11 years ago

Santorum Ignores Economy – Makes his Religion Problem for Voters

The media is slowly becoming wise to the fact that Rick Santorum’s campaign is fueled by religion, not the economy.…

11 years ago

A Russian Role Model for America’s Politicians

Republicans go through life trying to find excuses to avoid the responsibility of shared humanity and citizenship. Ms. Sobchak, like…

11 years ago

Rick Santorum is Hateful Master of Deceit

Rick Santorum is fast setting new lows in his disdain for honesty, choosing instead the path of deceit, expressing hatred…

11 years ago

Santorum Tells Puerto Ricans They Must Speak English for Statehood

With typical Republican ignorance of the U.S. Constitution, Rick Santorum tells Puerto Ricans they have to speak English to achieve…

11 years ago

2012: What is the GOP Really After? It’s the Congressional Seats

Perhaps we have been too dismissive of the strategy that currently prevails both in Congress, the current Tea/Republican primaries and…

11 years ago

Romney, Not Americans, Have Made Wealth His Problem

Mitt Romney is as divorced from economic reality as a French aristocrat of the eighteenth century, and he is no…

11 years ago

High Pucker Factors Are Not Just for Caliphates Anymore

Republicans insist we must fear the specter of an world Islamic Caliphate while ignoring the dangers of a Christian theocracy…

11 years ago

Obama’s Constitution-friendly Religion

Jeffrey T. Kuhner of the Edmund Burke Institute, who last year accused President Obama of having "black nationalist sympathies" (whatever those…

11 years ago

Santorum and Gingrich Lies Dangerously Throw Gas On The Obama Hate Fire

Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are utilizing lies about President Obama in a dangerously divisive manner designed to reach a…

11 years ago

Unions Betray Their Economic Self-Interest By Supporting Brown Over Elizabeth Warren

There was a time when union members voted in their own economic self-interest. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing in…

11 years ago

Christian Right’s 2012 Meme: Atheist Dictatorship or Secular Theocracy

The more Rick Santorum pushes for an American theocracy the more the Christian Right accuses liberals of plotting an atheist…

11 years ago

2012 Primer: The Unbelievable Truth

When the truth conflicts with our belief set or paradigms, will we embrace it anyway, no matter how uncomfortable, or…

11 years ago

Be Afraid Of Michigan, Mitt, Be Very Afraid

If Mitt has to spend millions to beat Santorum in Michigan, what do you figure it's gonna take to beat…

11 years ago

Obama Popularity Rising While Republican Enthusiasm Falls

Recent polls show Obama's popularity on the rise, even among Independents and Republicans, while enthusiasm among the GOP base is…

11 years ago

Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown In Massachusetts Senate Nail-biter

A new WMUR poll of Massachusetts finds Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren holding a narrow lead over Republican Senator Scott Brown,…

11 years ago

Independents Embrace Obama As They Flee Romney And The GOP

According to the new Pew Research poll, Independents are fleeing Mitt Romney and embracing President Obama at a brisk clip.

11 years ago

Santorum Surge Thanks to Power of Shared Idiocy

Rick Santorum has something in common with the base: shared idiocy about an America that never was, and the culture…

11 years ago

The 2012 CPAC Awards for Insanity in Politics

Each year, CPAC brings you the most insane things Republican can think of saying. We present you here with a…

11 years ago

2012 Primer: Wearing Down The Masses With Anti-Obama Propaganda

In the years after the President Obama's inauguration, America has been bombarded with insinuations, unfounded allegations, that are designed to…

11 years ago

A Desperate GOP Hopes A Brokered Convention Will Deliver A Savior

Talk about a brokered 2012 GOP nominating convention is growing - but do the Republicans have to bargain with?

11 years ago

As Voters Come Home To Obama, 2012 Begins To Look A Lot Like 2008

A comparison of recent polls in Ohio, Michigan, and Virginia with 2008 polling shows that voters who supported President Obama…

11 years ago

Rick Santorum’s False Claim that Christian Marriage is About Children

Santorum says gays don't deserve the right to get married because gay marriage doesn’t benefit society but Saint Paul says…

11 years ago

The Problem with Republican Voters

The problem with Republican voters is that they are ill-informed. Worse, this ignorance seems to be a self-imposed state since…

11 years ago

Republicans Face A Do Or Die Decision If Obama Wins A Second Term

If Obama wins reelection the GOP will have a choice, either snatch back the reins from the inmates or prepare…

11 years ago

Republicans Not Feeling the Love from Musicians

GOP politicians have not had much luck over the years finding inspiring music to play at their events because of…

11 years ago

Simply Unelectable: How Romney’s Deal With Donald Trump Helps Obama

By cutting a deal for Donald Trump's endorsement, Mitt Romney has done his part today to get President Obama reelected.

11 years ago

Polling Shows Obama Heading For Huge Victory Over Romney

It is early, but an analysis of state by state polling data reveals that President Obama may be heading for…

11 years ago

It is Time for the Mainstream Media to Talk Religion and Politics

The mainstream media's reluctance to talk about religion and politics with regard to America's problems and possible solutions is troubling

11 years ago

Sarah Palin Finally Fulfills Her Godly Purpose Of Destroying The GOP

You thought Sarah Palin was a non-entity, didn’t ya’? Guess again, liberal elite suckers! Yes, but this time she's working'…

11 years ago

Unconventional Wisdom: Gingrich Is More Dangerous To Obama Than Romney

The conventional wisdom is a Romney nomination would give President Obama a run, while a Gingrich candidacy would ensure an…

11 years ago

Why Mitt Romney Must Embrace His Inner Newt

If Mitt Romney is ever going to convince Republicans to vote for him, he must embrace his inner Gingrich and…

11 years ago